By Kathleen Rhodes
CNSNews.com Correspondent
February 28, 2005
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(CNSNews.com) – Kansas Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who’s under fire for her controversial veto of a bill critics say might have prevented the recent death of a woman in a botched abortion, accepted thousands of dollars in political donations from the owner of the clinic that performed the dead woman’s abortion.

Information obtained by Cybercast News Service shows that George Tiller, who runs Women’s Health Care Services P.A. in Wichita, made more than $20,000 in contributions to various Sebelius campaigns and her political action committee between 1994 and 2002.

Tiller’s clinic is currently under investigation by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, following a Jan. 13 abortion that is believed to have caused the hemorrhaging that led to the death of the 19-year-old Texas woman.

According to documents from the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, Tiller personally contributed a total of $10,200 to Sebelius’ political campaigns between 1994 and 2000, while Women’s Health Care Services contributed another $2,000 to Sebelius’ campaign in September 2000.

Receipt and expenditure reports at the Kansas Secretary of State’s office reveal that in 2000, Tiller contributed $10,000 to Sebelius’ political action committee, the Bluestem Fund.

Tiller’s wife, Jeanne Tiller, also made personal donations of $2,250 to Sebelius’ campaigns between 1998 and 2001, according to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.

Three members of Sebelius’ administration have received donations from Tiller himself or Women’s Health Care Services, according to the Governmental Ethics Commission website. They include Jim Garner, secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor, who got $5,000; Joan Wagnon, secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue, who received $4,000 and Marge Petty, director of public affairs and consumer protection, who received $1,500.
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Wichita, KS ? Late-term abortionist George Tiller, changed the privacy statement on his web site yesterday, removing mention of his policy to forward the names of abortion patients to his political action committee, ProKanDo, for fundraising purposes. Kansans for Life had released a statement early Friday revealing the hypocrisy of such a policy in light of Tiller’s refusal to release the names of underage patients to the Kansas Attorney General who is investigating allegations of child sex abuse.

After receiving the information from KFL, a reporter contacted Tiller spokesperson Julie Burkhart on Friday morning to inquire about the policy. The policy was removed from the web site by early afternoon.

Burkhart is also the director of ProKanDo, and would likely have been the recipient of the abortion patient names. If any of those patients gave donations to ProKanDo of $50 or more, their names and addresses were reported to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. Operation Rescue has obtained copies of these reports under the Kansas Open Records Act and they can be viewed by clicking here.

“I don’t know if I can quite convey how hypocritical this is,” said Mary Kay Culp, the executive director of Kansans for Life.

“Tiller cannot possibly be as concerned for patient privacy as he claims since he will turn over patient names to political fundraisers. One has to wonder how many individuals listed on the ProKanDo Receipts and Expenditures Reports, which also lists home addresses and even occupations, are former abortion patients of his,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.

“If Tiller really cared about these women beyond the dollar amount that he can make from them, he would gladly release the names of underage late-term abortion patients to Attorney General Phill Kline,” said Newman. “It is certain that that Kline will protect the identities of these women more than Tiller apparently has, and will work to protect these girls from continued sexual abuse at the hands of the rapists who have impregnated them.”

Read story in Kansas City Star
Read article in Wichita Eagle, 2/26/05
Read original privacy statement at www.dr-tiller.com

Operation Rescue is considering a lawsuit to gain the information

Wichita, KS – Operation Rescue has received a censored copy of the 911 “CAD” transcript generated by an emergency call from Women?s Health Care Services on February 17, 2005. OR had requested the audio file of the 911 conversation as well but was denied by Emergency Communications director Diane Gage, citing that it contained ?confidential health information.?

The call to 911 Emergency Communications was made on February 17, 2005, at 10:54 AM by George Tiller, who was not on the scene at the abortion clinic at the time. Tiller requested an ambulance to transport a 30-year old female patient to Wesley Medical Center. Tiller reported that she was conscious and breathing, and that the evaluation to transport her was made by a “nurse or doctor.” “This is a transfer/interfacility case,” read the transcript.

Operation Rescue broke this story with eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence that another victim of a botched abortion at Tiller’s infamous late-term abortion mill had been rushed to the hospital.
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